You're so right-on, John. A decent developer can single-handedly write an entire, robust application with automation, passing data through the internet, etc., all in VFP. I can think of no other language out there that offers that power. You make your own rules. One of mine is use what I see works best, not what other people tell me is the appropriate way. I really don't care what other people tell me to use. If that trainer who made the comment about VFP (in that other similar thread) was so knowledgable about what works best, I think he'd be running his own software company, not doing corporate training on ASP.


>Yeah, exactly.
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>I just don't take well to anyone coming into a FoxPro forum and proclaiming that developers that don't learn other tools are idiots, doomed, and that the writing is on the wall.
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>Frankly, in a general Windows application development competition (there used to be one!), I would take a team made up of any three of our top VFP developers against any other team in the world.
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>I'm here to preach the opposite: Fox developers may not understand just how valuable and relevent they are. VFP developers, IMHO, seem to have a much better grasp of the "big picture" than any other single-tool Visual Studio developer group. We know UI, we know n-tier, we know COM, we know web, and we know data physical structure. Your typical VB app is child's play to an accomplished VFP developer. While they're screwing around figuring out how to access some data a separate DBA developed, we're already into version 1.1. This is what needs to be preached: Not VFP's inarguable position as poor bastard stepchild, but the fact that VFP's all encompasing environment has made us all lean and mean general developers.
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>>What was that... "Beware of the Pharisees, for they love to pray standing on the corner..."